Magister Psychologiae - MPsych / This study examined three schools; namely a Public, Ex model C, and a Youth juvenile rehabilitation school. A non-experimental survey design was used for this study. The sample consisted of 47 educators across the three types of schools. Data was collected by means of two instruments: a demographic questionnaire, and the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) consisting of three subscales namely; Emotional Exhaustion, Depersonalization, and Diminished Personal Accomplishment. It was hypothesised that due to the stressful nature of work in disadvantaged and resource lacking schools, as well as the unstable and unsafe environment in certain schools, burnout among educators in Public and Youth juvenile rehabilitation schools will have a higher prevalence rate than educators in Ex model C schools. The study also aimed to identify which various educator demographic variables correlate with high burnout levels. Correlational results of the study found no significant relationships between the three subscales of the MBI and certain educator demographic variables across the three types of schools. The results of an Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) test revealed a borderline non-significant difference in the Emotional Exhaustion subscale between the Youth juvenile rehabilitation school and Public schools. Post Hoc comparison tests suggested Public school educators in the sample had the highest levels of burnout in terms of Emotional Exhaustion across the three types of schools, while educators in the Youth juvenile rehabilitation schools showed the lowest levels of burnout in terms of Emotional exhaustion. The results of the present study were discussed from the perspective of the Conservation of Resources theory, suggesting resource depletion as a central facet to burnout and how prolonged stress leads to burnout. Future qualitative studies exploring the etiology of burnout was thus recommended. / South Africa

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Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit Tod in digitalen Spielen und geht der Frage nach, über welche Routen und Netzwerke der Tod ins digitale Spiel kommt. Ziel war es herauszufinden, wie Tod in digitalen Spielen repräsentiert wird, welche Praktiken im Zusammenhang mit Tod in digitalen Spielen erkennbar sind und welche soziokulturellen Aspekte und Konzepte von Tod in digitalen Spielen ausgehandelt und konstruiert werden. Im Mittelpunkt steht das Spielgenre der Casual Games, wobei der Untersuchungsfokus insbesondere auf den sog. Wimmelbildspielen oder Hidden Objekt Games liegt. In diesen Spielen dreht sich alles um das Sammeln, Kombinieren und Suchen von Gegenständen in dichten, mit Objekten überfüllten Wimmelbildszenen sowie um das Lösen von Rätseln und Puzzles. Zur Bearbeitung des Themas wurden im Rahmen einer ethnografischen Untersuchung verschiedene Methoden miteinander kombiniert (visuelle, textuelle und inhaltliche Analysen, Close Playing, ethnografische Gespräche und Dichte Beschreibung). Auf Basis vielfältigen Materials (digitale Wimmelbildspiele, Webseiten, Foren- und Bewertungsbeiträge, Let’s Plays, Berichte und Interviews, literarische Texte, Filme, Transkripte von Spielsessions) werden vier Beziehungsnetze herausgearbeitet, über die der Tod ins Spiel kommt. Das erste Beziehungsnetz beschreibt transmediale Zusammenhänge und durchzieht verschiedene Medien, wobei der Tod über alte, weitgereiste Stoffe, Motive und kulturelle Topoi ins Spiel kommt, die den Zwecken und Möglichkeiten des digitalen Mediums angepasst werden. Die drei anderen Beziehungsnetze werden unter dem Begriff der Ökonomie zusammengefasst: Anhand der Ökonomie der Aufmerksamkeit wird gezeigt, wie der Tod über kulturell und visuell etablierte Aufmerksamkeitsregimes, Todessymboliken und -motive ins Spiel kommt. Dass Tod auch Teil der Spielpraktiken selbst ist, weil er die Spielhandlungen initiiert und strukturiert, wird anhand der Ökonomie des Accomplishments dargelegt. Die Ausführungen zur Ökonomie des Wertes machen deutlich, wie Spielebewertungen sowie soziale Todes- und Sterbeerfahrungen die Beziehung zwischen Spieler, Spiel und Spieleproduzent mitbestimmen können. In der Arbeit wird somit nicht nur dargelegt, dass dem Thema Tod eine zentrale Rolle beim Spielen von digitalen Spielen zukommt, sondern auch, dass Tod die Gestaltung und Vermarktung dieser Spiele maßgeblich beeinflusst und somit ebenfalls Bestandteil alltäglicher digitaler Kommunikationsformen ist.

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The present study explored the effect of the birth of a child with a cleft lip and palate on family functioning within the context of family systems theory. Five families, each with a child who was born with a cleft lip and palate, were included in the study. The five couples were all married and they were the biological parents of their children whose ages ranged from two months to five years. All five sets of parents were initially interviewed together and then had separate individual interviews where the Family Assessment Measure-III was administered. The results reflected each family's distinctive patterns of interaction and how they adapted to the birth of a child with an orofacial cleft. Factors found to affect family functioning included: External support systems, individual coping skills, family rules and boundaries, open communication and cohesion among family members. / Psychology / M. A. (Psychology)

The aim of the research study, Combatting the Downward Spiral: Burnout, Support Networks and Coping Strategies of TESOL Teachers at Private Language Schools in Johannesburg, South Africa was firstly to determine whether TESOL teachers working in private language schools in Johannesburg, South Africa suffered from burnout. Secondly, the aim was to discover which factors caused stress for TESOL teachers inside and outside the classroom, what support structures were available for burned out TESOL teachers and the type of coping strategies TESOL teachers used to manage burnout. Using a mixed method design which consisted of the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Educators Survey and semi-structured interviews, the findings revealed that 46% of the TESOL teachers who participated in the research study were suffering from high levels of burnout. Interviews revealed three main areas that caused stress for TESOL teachers: the job of teaching, relationships at work and organisational and TESOL-related issues. These areas were divided further into various sub-themes. Furthermore, support structures for burned out TESOL teachers were generally inadequate and although TESOL teachers attempted to manage burnout by using a variety of coping strategies, these did not seem to be effective in the long-term. / English Studies / D. Lit. et Phil. (English)

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between burnout and work engagement among employees in the pharmaceutical distribution industry. The research conducted on these concepts was geared towards adding to the knowledge base in the field of industrial and organisational psychology, to enable the current organisation from which the sample was chosen and other organisations in South Africa to focus on the effect that burnout has on employees, which directly affects the company. A quantitative survey using primary data was conducted on a convenience sample (N = 204) of full-time employees in a South African pharmaceutical distribution company. The Maslach Burnout Inventory – General Survey model (MBI-GS) and the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) model were used to gather data. The work engagement-burnout continuum has received a great deal of research attention (Maslach, Schaufeli, & Leiter, 2001; Schaufeli & Bakker, 2003; Schutte, Toppinen, Kalimo, & Schaufeli, 2000) that has produced contradicting results. One viewpoint regards the core constructs of work engagement and burnout as opposite poles of two continua (vigour-exhaustion and dedication-cynicism), labelled energy and identification, respectively (González-Romá, Schaufeli, Bakker, & Lloret, 2006). Work engagement is ”characterized by a high level of energy and strong identification with one’s work”, while burnout is ”characterized by the opposite: A low level of energy combined with poor identification with one’s work” (Schaufeli & Bakker, 2003, p. 5; Bakker, Schaufeli, Leiter, & Taris, 2008). Hence work engagement and burnout can be recognised as inseparable and co-dependent constructs that share more or less 10 to 25% of their variance and are moderately negatively related (Schaufeli & Bakker, 2004; Schaufeli, Salanova, González-Romá, & Bakker, 2002). The second viewpoint regards work engagement and burnout as being strongly related, but fundamentally different in their separation in the work experience. They are therefore not opposite poles of a continuum (Denton, Newton, & Bower, 2008; Huhtala & Parzefall, 2007; Rothmann & Joubert, 2007; Schaufeli & Bakker, 2004; Schaufeli et al., 2002). Work engagement is defined as a ”positive, fulfilling, work-related state of mind that is characterised by vigour, dedication, and absorption” (Schaufeli & Bakker, 2004, p. 295). Burnout, however, is defined by Maslach and Jackson (1981, p. 99) as a ”syndrome of emotional exhaustion and cynicism that occurs frequently amongst individuals who do ‘people-work’ of some kind”. The statistical results of this study confirmed the hypothesis. It was found that there is a significant relationship between burnout and work engagement. Burnout is indeed negatively related to work engagement in the contact centre. However, a definitive relationship between burnout and work engagement in the distribution centre was not established. / Industrial & Organisational Psychology / M. Comm. (Industrial Psychology)

The researcher investigated ways of alleviating stress and burnout among secondary school teachers. In this regard, factors causing teacher stress and burnout, the effect of stress and burnout on the quality of teaching and learning, support structures offered by secondary schools, and coping strategies to deal with stress and burnout were relevant. A total of 20 participants consisting of 12 teachers and 8 school management team members were interviewed using individual and focus group interviews, and participant observation. Findings revealed that teachers are experiencing a range of stressors of a consistent and prolonged nature leading to burnout. The allocation of unfamiliar subjects as a stressor appeared to be a new finding not noted in any of the previous literature. Stress and burnout constitute a threat to teacher retention and effective teaching and learning. Support structures offered to teachers are inadequate, resulting in teachers using ineffective stress coping strategies. / Die navorser het maniere ondersoek om spanning en uitbranding by hoërskoolonderwysers te verlig. In hierdie verband was faktore wat spanning en uitbranding tot gevolg het, die effek van spanning en uitbranding op die kwaliteit van onderrig en leer, ondersteuningstrukture wat deur skole aangebied word, en strategieë om spanning en uitbranding te hanteer van toepassing. Onderhoude, individueel en fokusgroep, is met 20 deelnemers, 12 onderwysers en 8 lede van die skoolbeheerraad gevoer. Data is ook met deelnemerwaarneming ingesamel. Navorsingsbevindinge toon aan dat onderwysers volgehoue spanning ervaar wat tot uitbranding lei. Die toewysing van vakke waarmee onderwysers nie vertroud is nie is as ‘n bevinding geïdentifiseer wat nie algemeen in die literatuur opgeteken is nie. Spanning en uitbranding affekteer onderwyserbehoud vir die beroep en goeie kwaliteit onderrig en leer negatief. Ondersteuningstrukture vir onderwysers is onvoldoende met die gevolg dat onderwysers geneig is tot die oneffektiewe hantering van spanning. / Umcwaningi ucwaninge izindlela zokuciphisa ukucindezeleka nokushisa phakathi kwabafundisi besikole esiphakeme. Kulokhu, izici ezidala ukucindezeleka nokushisa kothisa, umphumela wokucindezeleka nokushiswa kumhangatho wokufundisa nokufunda, izakhiwo zokusekela ezininkezwa izikole zamabanga aphezulu, Kanye namaqhinga okubhekana nomphumela wokucindezeleka nokushisa kwakufanele. Ingqikithi yabangu-20 yabahlanganyeli abangothisa abangu-12 kanye namalunga eqembu lesiphathimandla sabaphathi abangu-8 besikole babuzwe imibuzo ngokusebenzisa izingxoxo zanye ngabanye kange neqembu lokugxila, Kanye nokubonwa kwabahlangayeli, Kutholakale ukuthi othisha babona ububanzi bokucindezeleka kwendalo eqhubekayo okungaholela ekusheni. Ukwabiwa kwezihloko ezingajwayelekile njengoba ukucindezeleka kubonakala sengathi kuyinto entsha engatholakali ezincwadini zangaphambilini. Ukucindezeleka nokushisa kwakha umsongelo ekugcinweni kothisa Kanye nokufundisa nokufinda okuphumelelayo. Izakhiwo zokuseleka ezinekezwa othisha azanele, ziholela kothisa besenbenzisa amaqhinga okubhekana nokucindezeleka angasebenzi. / Educational Management and Leadership / M. Ed. (Education Management)

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:24:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MariaHemiliaFonseca.pdf: 2656512 bytes, checksum: aebfeefb5fb86e73a1f74707d4d5951d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-09-27 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / In view of the importance and meaning placed on work presently when there is unemployment everywhere, the right to work arises again to the world scene grounded on the support and promotion of human dignity. Assuming that the right to work is a universal right of all men, and that its acknowledgement as a fundamental right is conditioned to the guidelines drawn up by every legal system, the study herein searched to show that the right to work in the Brazilian legal system (i) is acknowledged as a fundamental social-economic right , (ii) it adopts the structure of a principle in the constitutional text dated back to 1988, that is, it is shown as an optimization commandment which imposes prima facie rights and duties , and thus it demands that it is carried out according to the phatic and legal possibilities foreseen in each concrete case , based on the theory about rules and principles developed by Robert Alexy; (iii) its analysis can be performed on an individual and collective dimension , which are closely related to the distinct application fields of the fundamental rights, that is, the one that involves the State and its citizens and the one that is centered in the relations among the private ones; (iv) in its individual range , it is shown circumscribed by the work contract and in the collective range it is associated to the objective of full employment, especially the public policies of work and employment; (v) its accomplishment is a needed consequence of the legal system of special protection that the Constitution has granted to these rights , and this can be done through political and legal mechanisms. It was checked , therefore, in the Brazilian scene , that the right to work is not an unrealizable chimera. There are, indeed, different political and legal mechanisms for its accomplishment; will and courage in small doses are required to overcome old paradigms / Ante a importância e o significado que o trabalho humano adquiriu nos tempos atuais de desemprego, o direito ao trabalho figura no cenário mundial como base de sustentação e de promoção da dignidade humana. Partindo do pressuposto de que o direito ao trabalho é um direito universal de todos os homens e que o seu reconhecimento como um direito fundamental está condicionado às diretrizes traçadas por cada ordenamento jurídico, o presente estudo procura demonstrar que o direito ao trabalho no ordenamento jurídico brasileiro (i) é reconhecido como um direito econômico-social fundamental; (ii) assume a estrutura de um princípio no texto constitucional de 1988, ou seja, apresenta-se como um mandamento de otimização que impõe direitos e deveres prima facie, exigindo, assim, a sua realização segundo as possibilidades fáticas e jurídicas previstas em cada caso concreto, nos moldes da teoria sobre regras e princípios desenvolvida por Robert Alexy; (iii) a sua análise pode se dar em uma dimensão individual e em uma dimensão coletiva, que têm correlação direta com os distintos campos de aplicação dos direitos fundamentais, ou seja, aquele que envolve o Estado e seus cidadãos e aquele que se centra nas relações entre os particulares; (iv) em seu âmbito individual aparece circunscrito ao contrato de trabalho e no âmbito coletivo associado ao objetivo do pleno emprego, especialmente às políticas públicas de trabalho e emprego; (v) a sua efetivação é uma conseqüência necessária do regime jurídico de proteção especial que a Constituição concedeu a estes direitos, e esta pode se dar através de mecanismos políticos e jurídicos. Verifica-se, portanto, que no cenário brasileiro o direito a trabalhar não se trata de uma quimera irrealizável. Existem, sim, distintos mecanismos políticos e jurídicos a serem utilizados para a sua efetivação, bastando um pouco de vontade e coragem para ultrapassar velhos paradigmas

La thérapie par le plein air représente une alternative aux programmes d’intervention conventionnels pour jeunes antisociaux. Elle donne à ses participants l’occasion de modifier leurs pensées et leurs comportements dans un contexte d’expédition, à travers la participation à diverses activités de plein air. Ce faisant, ils développent leur répertoire d’habiletés personnelles et sociales, ce qui pourrait faciliter le désistement d’une conduite antisociale. Un devis expérimental prospectif, avec pré-test et post-tests à trois et six mois, a été utilisé afin d’évaluer l’effet de la durée d’une intervention de thérapie par le plein air sur le niveau d’antisocialité et l’insertion socio-professionnelle de jeunes contrevenants. De plus, l’effet potentiellement médiateur des progrès réalisés au chapitre des habiletés interpersonnelles et de la motivation d’accomplissement a été examiné. Un échantillon de 220 jeunes contrevenants a été observé, divisé aléatoirement selon deux conditions expérimentales, soit un programme de 8 à 10 jours et un programme de 17 à 20 jours. Il apparaît que la durée n’a pas d’effet direct significatif sur le niveau d’antisocialité et l’insertion socio-professionnelle des participants. En revanche, la durée du programme a un effet positif indirect sur le niveau d’antisocialité subséquent des participants, à travers l’amélioration des habiletés interpersonnelles et la motivation d’accomplissement des sujets. Aucune des variables mises en jeu n’a eu un impact significatif sur les progrès observés au niveau de l’insertion socio-professionnelle des sujets. La thérapie par le plein air semble favoriser le désistement d’une conduite antisociale en encourageant le développement de certaines habiletés personnelles qui font habituellement défaut chez les jeunes antisociaux. / Wilderness therapy is an alternative to more traditional interventions for antisocial youth. This expedition-based intervention requires participation in various outdoor activities, through which participants have the opportunity to modify thought patterns and behaviors. In doing so, they broaden their existing, and often poor, repertoire of personal and social skills, heightening the possibilities of desistence from an antisocial path. An experimental and prospective design, with pre-test and post-tests at three and six months, was used to evaluate the influence of the length of the program on the antisociality and socio-professional status of young offenders. The potential impact as mediators of interpersonal skills and accomplishment motivation was also observed. A sample of 220 young offenders was used, which was divided at random into two conditions; a program lasting between 8 to 10 days or one lasting between 17 and 20 days. Length of program had no direct and significant influence on the antisociality levels or the socio-professional status of the participants. However, length had a positive indirect effect on lowering the level of antisociality of the subjects, through the development of their interpersonal skills and accomplishment motivation. None of the variables had a significant impact on the socio-professional status progress noted for most subjects. Wilderness therapy appears to support young offenders in desisting from an antisocial pathway by facilitating the development of personal and social skills.